John Leyburn

John Leyburn (27 April 1814-13 July 1893) was a Presbyterian minister from Richmond, Virginia.

Biography
John Leyburn was born in Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1814, and he married Louisa Steuart Mercer in Fredericksburg in 1845 before becoming a Presbyterian minister in Richmond. In 1865, during the closing days of the American Civil War, he witnessed the Confederate burning of Richmond, saying that the earth seemed to writhe in agony as stupendous thunders roared around. On 4 April 1866, he was called to be the pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and he died in Baltimore in 1893.